# Triple-Bypass Comics Special: My Hospital Room Saved My Life! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [February 14, 2021, 4:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/triple-bypass-comics-special-my-hospital-room-saved-my-life/932892 "2021-02-14T16:13:03Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![gotpasswords](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c57346/32.png) [@gotpasswords](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gotpasswords)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2021, 11:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/triple-bypass-comics-special-my-hospital-room-saved-my-life/932892/41 "2021-02-24T23:05:27Z")
> [@panache45](#): > > With a lot of trouble, I was able to sit up with my feet on the floor. Suddenly, all sorts of alarms went off, and nurses came running. \< _Bong! Bong! Bong!_ \> Please get back in bed! Your care team has been notified! I wasn’t even trying to get out - just shifted myself enough to set off the alarm last week. The most ridiculous thing was that the alarm kept going off until a nurse came in to stop it. ---
**Author:** ![BippityBoppityBoo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bippityboppityboo/32/5745_2.png) [@BippityBoppityBoo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BippityBoppityBoo)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2021, 11:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/triple-bypass-comics-special-my-hospital-room-saved-my-life/932892/42 "2021-02-24T23:33:34Z")
> [@Melbourne](#): > > Not wanting the patients to walk around is associated with under-staffing, overwork, and just being lazy and self-interested This is too cheap a shot to respond to, especially the lazy and self-interested part. Lazy and self-interested people do not become, much less continue to be nurses and nursing assistants. I will risk a ‘full stop’ here. ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2021, 1:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/triple-bypass-comics-special-my-hospital-room-saved-my-life/932892/43 "2021-02-25T01:04:51Z")
> [@Melbourne](#): > > Not wanting the patients to walk around is associated with under-staffing, overwork, and just being lazy and self-interested. This is completely uncalled for. 😡 Not to mention colossally ill-informed. ---
**Author:** ![Melbourne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b5e925/32.png) [@Melbourne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Melbourne)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2021, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/triple-bypass-comics-special-my-hospital-room-saved-my-life/932892/44 "2021-02-25T01:14:56Z")
> [@BippityBoppityBoo](#): > > This is too cheap a shot to respond to, especially the lazy and self-interested part. Lazy and self-interested people do not become, much less continue to be nurses and nursing assistants. I will risk a ‘full stop’ here. I’m glad that your experience has been different than that of my self, my family, and friends and acquaintances, including the nurses. Even the most dedicated professionals exhibit behaviors that can be characterized as lazy or self interested. ---
**Author:** ![X.L.Lent](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/a5b964/32.png) [@X.L.Lent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/X.L.Lent)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2021, 6:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/triple-bypass-comics-special-my-hospital-room-saved-my-life/932892/45 "2021-02-25T06:18:09Z")
That was a scary story to read. Glad that you are doing better now. ---
**Author:** ![Exapno\_Mapcase](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/exapno_mapcase/32/1051_2.png) [@Exapno\_Mapcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exapno_Mapcase)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2021, 4:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/triple-bypass-comics-special-my-hospital-room-saved-my-life/932892/46 "2021-02-25T16:08:00Z")
Thanks. I am finally doing better now. The phlebitis (or maybe cellulitis, names given to it by different doctors, though the symptoms look the same to me) is still hanging around. From knee to groin a large patch of skin was bright red, swollen, stretched, and painful, with several two-inch lumps that looked like an alien’s egg pod was about to hatch. For obvious reasons, this interfered with all the walking and exercises they want me to do to bring my strength back. It wasn’t until the second course of antibiotics that the pain subsided, leaving my leg looking like it was peeling from a bad case of sunburn from the overstretched skin. I had the operation a month ago today, and while I’m much improved since even the second time I went home, today’s the first day I truly feel like I’m starting my recovery without handicaps. So, good news at last. ---
**Author:** ![BippityBoppityBoo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bippityboppityboo/32/5745_2.png) [@BippityBoppityBoo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BippityBoppityBoo)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2021, 4:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/triple-bypass-comics-special-my-hospital-room-saved-my-life/932892/47 "2021-02-25T16:46:46Z")
> [@Exapno\_Mapcase](#): > > phlebitis (or maybe cellulitis, names given to it by different doctors You might have had both at the same time. The only difference is where the -itis (inflammation in tissue) is. In phlebitis the inflammation is in a vein. In cellulitis the inflammation is in subcutaneous (below the skin) connective tissue, Red, swollen, warm, painful. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/triple-bypass-comics-special-my-hospital-room-saved-my-life/932892.md?page=2)